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Top Women Lawyers

May 10, 2012

Jayne Kim

State Bar of California Los Angeles, San Francisco Practice type: Litigation


In barely three months, Kim pulled off an unprecedented feat: She largely eliminated the State Bar's chronic backlog of attorney discipline cases.


When officials announced in July 2011 that the backlog had to go, more than 2,000 client complaints had been lingering in the bar prosecutor's office for six months or longer. By year's end, Kim's staff had closed, fully investigated or filed formal charges in all of them - plus completed investigations...

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